US History Quiz 1.2

 Which group established the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

• Quakers
• Puritans
• Catholics
• Pilgrims

This was created by New England Puritans to provide partial church membership for people that had not had a "conversion experience".

• Halfway Covenant
• Ark of the Covenant
• Partial GraceCovenant
• Great Compromise

 Which colonist was banished from New England and founded Rhode Island as a place where people could practice religious freedom?

• Roger Williams
• Peter Stuyvesant
• Lord Baltimore
• William Penn

 King Phillip’s war was a bloody war between the 

• Puritans and the Wampanoag Indians led by Chief Metacomet
• Spanish and French in New Orleans
• French settlers and the Indians
• Spanish settlers in Florida and the Plantation owners of the Carolinas

Who established a Quaker colony in English North America?

• Roger Williams
• Anne Hutchinson
• Jonathan Edwards
• William Penn

In what way was the population of the Massachusetts colony different from Virginia? 

• Massachusetts colonists tended to settle as families, while most Virginians were single men.
• Most people in Massachusetts were English, while most of the Virginians were Dutch.
• Most people in Massachusetts were Christians, while most of the Virginians were not.
• Colonists in Massachusetts had a much lower life expectancy that that of Virginia.

Which of the following is NOT a way that slaves maintained their African culture in America?  

• Secretly writing down their customs and traditions
• Through music and dance
• Blending African religious rituals with Christianity
•  Blending African dialects with English

What would be the best title for this map? 

• Spanish Colonies in the New World
• British Domination of the Americas
• Colonial Trade Routes
• The United States in 1750 

According to the theory of mercantilism, the principal purpose of the thirteen original colonies was to provide Great Britain with

• workers and manufactured goods
• raw materials and markets
• military recruits
• naval bases

By the 1720's, the Northern colonies were  

• more dependent on slavery than the Southern colonies
• less dependent on trade with England than the Southern colonies
• less economically diverse than the Southern colonies
• more urban than the Southern colonies